Australian Oil Painting by Grace Cossington Smith 1952

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Hill In The Bush

Original Oil Painting 1952

by Grace Cossington Smith (1892 - 1984)

Independently Valued by a Leading Australian Art Expert (ex Christie’s Australia) at £4,000

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A superb impressionist oil painting on board by pioneering Australian post-impressionist artist Grace Cossington Smith. The painting is titled Hill in the Bush and depicts a rural landscape in Australia. Smith has used single dabs of pure colour, she built up her forms into an image whose mood and expression resonated through her careful arrangement of colours. The painting brings something of the impressionist and post-impressionist which is vibrant with light. This is a highly accomplished painting and is an excellent example of Smith's work. The painting is in very fine condition with only minor imperfections in places that do not detract. The painting is presented in a wooden frame and is signed and dated lower left. A fine oil painting that would grace any home or collection.

Value - Timothy Kendrew, a leading Australian art expert who was instrumental in founding Christie’s Australian offices, has independently authenticated this painting and valued it at £4,000.  Timothy Kendrew is widely recognised as one of the foremost authorities on 20^th century Australian art.  His father, Major General Sir Douglas Kendrew, was the Governor of Western Australia from 1963-1974 and had an extensive collection of Australian art.  Timothy Kendrew later received his formal art training with Christie’s in London.

Grace Cossington Smith was born in Sydney on 22 April 1892. She studied with Dattilo Rubbo at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales in 1910 and attended drawing classes at the Winchester School of Art, England and at Stettin, Germany 1912-4. She returned to Sydney and to classes with Rubbo in 1914. Her work reflects her middle-class suburban life devoted to painting and depicting the environment about her. She was primarily concerned with form and colour, and with giving her images a spiritual quality. She portrayed flower pieces and sun drenched domestic settings, as well as landscapes, streetscapes, views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and religious subjects. In 1938, following the death of her father, she moved from her garden studio to one inside the house, and began painting a series of intimate views of her room. Cossington Smith died on 10 December 1984, aged 92.

Cossington Smith's paintings sell for many thousands of pounds at auction, please see results in the picture section of this listing.

Measurements:

Painting -               27cm (10.5") x 21cm (8")

Frame -                 30cm (12") x 24cm (9.5")

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